Mark Malloch Brown, Baron Malloch-Brown

George Mark Malloch Brown, Baron Malloch -Brown, KCMG, PC ( born September 16, 1953) is a British journalist, economist, and was from June 2007 to October 2009 Minister of State for Africa, Asia and the UN in the government of Gordon Brown.

Career

Malloch Brown studied history at Magdalene College, Cambridge and graduated with a Master 's Degree in Political Science at the University of Michigan from.

He began his career in journalism as a political correspondent of The Economist (1977-1979) and founding editor of the Economist Development Report. From 1986 to 1994 he was a leading international partner in the Sawyer - Miller Group, before joining the UN Flüchtlingshochkommisariat, for which he directed the operations for Cambodian refugees in Thailand.

Malloch Brown has held from 1999 to 2005 which are generally regarded as the third- highest UN position function of the UNDP Administrator. Previously, he held senior positions at the World Bank, among others as Vice President for External Affairs. In this role he was also responsible for relations with the United Nations.

He followed on 1 April 2006, the Canadian Louise Fréchette as Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations after after he was previously Head of Cabinet of the incumbent Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and has held this position until the end of Annan's tenure in December 2006.

On 27 June 2007 it was announced that Malloch Brown will be members of the Cabinet of new Prime Minister Gordon Brown as Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO ). His responsibilities included the United Nations, Asia, Africa and. Furthermore, he was appointed for life as a member of the British House of Lords. End of July 2009, he stepped back by its own account for personal and family reasons, from his ministerial post.